Rohit

“Fitzjames had once asked him how he could approach life-threatening peril and minor annoyances with the same mildness and he’d shrugged. ‘It doesn’t improve my mood to catastrophise, so I don’t.’ ‘And what about hope? Have you ever been in love, Graham?’ Fitzjames had asked. ‘Ever lived for the bestowment of a fair smile?’ ‘Ah, love, life’s greatest catastrophe.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“I suppose if you switch on your lights and boil your kettle with energy provided by a nuclear power station, you don’t spend much time reflecting on the fact that the atom had originally been split to kill cities.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“We live in an age where competition, domination and one-upmanship are portrayed as the crucial elements for survival. Where power and influence both subtle and glaring, are thought primarily necessary for one’s deepest fulfillment and gratification. But the ant and the caterpillar, like the Honey guide and the Badger or the Hermit crab and the Sea anemone, are beacons for a different kind of community. A community where relating and relationship, synergy and symbiosis and being there for one another, are regarded above everything else.”
― M. Yuvan, A Naturalist’s Journal

“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood